 After some long talks, on , Sfatul Țării proclaimed the Moldavian Democratic Federative Republic (), with Inculeț as President.Following the October Revolution, the governor of Bessarabia retired, yielding power to Constantin Mimi, the president of the Zemstvo of the guberniya, who was named Guberniya Commissar in March.The "Peasants' Congress" in October replaced Mimi with Inculeț, an action planned and approved by Kerensky, Russia's interim prime minister.